1 minute ago, jacko45k said:

Because it doesn't want the numbers to go up.

It's a waste of money. 

6 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

I thought they activated them all after the last outbreak in khlong toei. Or did I miss something.

That's what I thought and that is why I included that the report was released 15m ago?

5 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

It's a waste of money. 

Why?

The Ministry of Interior has provided each provincial announcement on its official website to provide people a tool to get access to the information for each province about rules and restrictions during the #COVID19 outbreak.

 

Most of the information is in Thai, so please check the general information by choosing your destination on the map and contact the province directly.

 

Please visit the official website of the Ministry of Interior at http://moicovid.comข้อมูลสำคัญ-จังหวัด to search for each provincial announcement.

 

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1435460619679895555

 

https://www.moicovid.com/

19 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Because it doesn't want the numbers to go up.

 There is a bit denial-ism to this all. Even people in Thailand, my immigrant friends - they just all want this to be over with, get the malls and bars all open, get back to normal. But the reality is covid is probably really bad in Thailand at the moment (with 40% of the 40,000 tests coming back positive), but people don't want to see it anymore, they don't want to see numbers like 100,000 positive cases. 

 

Denial is the way forward. 

50,000 children aged 10-18 offered free Sinopharm vaccine from Sep 20th

 

Thailand’s Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA), currently the country’s sole importer and administrator of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, has announced plans to inoculate children aged 10-18, under its “VACC 2 School” campaign, to help schools reopen for onsite classes sooner, amid reports of online learning problems. Registrations start today (Wednesday).

Schools can apply for the vaccine for its students free of charge. A total of 50,000 students will be accepted in preparation for the new school term. The inoculations are scheduled to begin on September 20th, which is also Thailand’s National Youth Day.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/50000-children-aged-10-18-offered-free-sinopharm-vaccine-from-sep-20th/

43 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

It's a waste of money. 

So you would rather save money and not see where the infections and cases are until the folks show up wanting treatment and then test them.  Fair enough,  With a view like that then the country and in fact all countries should just disregard the shutdown of travel and do away with any rules and regulations.  Is that what your possibly alluding to with your view of it being a waste of money. If not please explain how and why you view it as a waste.

21 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

50,000 children aged 10-18 offered free Sinopharm vaccine from Sep 20th

 

Thailand’s Chulabhorn Royal Academy (CRA), currently the country’s sole importer and administrator of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, has announced plans to inoculate children aged 10-18, under its “VACC 2 School” campaign, to help schools reopen for onsite classes sooner, amid reports of online learning problems. Registrations start today (Wednesday).

Schools can apply for the vaccine for its students free of charge. A total of 50,000 students will be accepted in preparation for the new school term. The inoculations are scheduled to begin on September 20th, which is also Thailand’s National Youth Day.

 

https://www.thaipbsworld.com/50000-children-aged-10-18-offered-free-sinopharm-vaccine-from-sep-20th/

How many kids are there in Thailand?

Another Bangkok only initiative and then only for those schools with the right connections.

3 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

So you would rather save money and not see where the infections and cases are until the folks show up wanting treatment and then test them.  Fair enough,  With a view like that then the country and in fact all countries should just disregard the shutdown of travel and do away with any rules and regulations.  Is that what your possibly alluding to with your view of it being a waste of money. If not please explain how and why you view it as a waste.

He's just trolling, or perhaps forgot that without testing nobody has a clue whats happening until its too late. 

Just now, edwinchester said:

How many kids are there in Thailand?

Another Bangkok only initiative and then only for those schools with the right connections.

No idea but a lot more than that, yes it needs to be nationwide.

35 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

No idea but a lot more than that, yes it needs to be nationwide.

Unless its changed since, 4 days ago the JCVI in UK said vaccines were not necessary for healthy kids 12-15. They have quality vaccines available too.

1 minute ago, Harry Black said:

Unless its changed since, 4 days ago the JCVI in UK said vaccines were not necessary for healthy kids 12-15. They have quality vaccines too.

Yes I'm aware of that report:

 

"But it recommended that ministers seek further advice, taking into account factors such as the impact on disruption to education, with sources suggesting vaccines for older children could be recommended this week."

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/06/uk-vaccine-advisers-acted-like-medical-regulators-covid-jabs-children-neil-ferguson

Just now, Harry Black said:

Neil Ferguson, the man who resigned from SAGE for not following his own advice!!!

I think its getting a bit off topic right?

Again, high percentage of deaths over 60 yrs

 

Today there were 228 deaths in #Thailand

 

113 males & 115 females

Burmese (3), Chinese (2), Lao (1), British (1)

Median age 69.5 (6 months-100 years)

1 pregnant woman died

3 children died

Most deaths in Bangkok (50)

72% of deaths aged 60+

1 died at home

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1435478925522575363

Just now, Bkk Brian said:

I think its getting a bit off topic right?

Just highlighting his hypocrisy when giving advice.

National Vaccination Rollout:

 

DAY 87: 827,462

DAY 88: 865,074

DAY 89: 925,627 <— New High

DAY 90: 369,512 <— Saturday

DAY 91: 325,218 <— Sunday

DAY 92: 722,377

DAY 93: 826,013

 

TOTAL: 37,461,284 doses since 28 February

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1435481245962567684

Just now, Harry Black said:

Just highlighting his hypocrisy when giving advice.

Tell me somebody who does not..................nobody is perfect, Boris, Neil, Anutin or Prayut

Out of 13,654 local cases (not in prisons) Bangkok 3,691 Samut Prakan 955 Chonburi 846 Samut Sakhon 641 Ratchaburi 528 Rayong 473 Ayutthaya 388 Songkhla 369 Nonthaburi 362 Narathiwat 332

 

https://twitter.com/ThaiNewsReports/status/1435480564543344641

Let's see a show of hands. Who believes the numbers?

3 hours ago, Danderman123 said:

I would be interested in a study about the few inmates who never get infected. 

If there are any they must have incredible immune systems. 

Phuket authorities announced on Wednesday that the ongoing Covid situation should be resolved within two weeks and the Phuket Sandbox scheme will continue uninterrupted.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005873

Each province's daily domestic COVID-19 cases update in Thailand on Wednesday.

Total: 14,160

 

https://twitter.com/NBTWORLDNews/status/1435488071546327047

A post and replies has been removed as that particular topic is already running in the news forum.  HERE

30 minutes ago, anchadian said:

Phuket authorities announced on Wednesday that the ongoing Covid situation should be resolved within two weeks and the Phuket Sandbox scheme will continue uninterrupted.

 

https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/40005873

Crazy, it's like Anutin and Prayut have spoken again.  It's under control, it will be over in 2 weeks, I promise.

BMA has extended its active case finding services to enable the public access to testing as much as possible to cope with the spread of #COVID19 in Bangkok. The testing will be processed with the antigen test kits, and the test results will be ready in 30 minutes.

 

https://twitter.com/prdthailand/status/1435498137632735235

 

2 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

So you would rather save money and not see where the infections and cases are until the folks show up wanting treatment and then test them.  Fair enough,  With a view like that then the country and in fact all countries should just disregard the shutdown of travel and do away with any rules and regulations.  Is that what your possibly alluding to with your view of it being a waste of money. If not please explain how and why you view it as a waste.

It's really expensive.  The UK blew £37bn on test, track and trace and even with that amount of cash it is widely viewed as a waste of money that did nothing much to change the outcomes (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-trace-idUSKBN2B2009).   Maybe the UK can blow that kind of money without too many consequences, but over here I think that money (if they had it spare) could be better used to help those who have lost all of their income due to the lockdowns, or used to acquire hospital beds, ICUs etc.  

1 hour ago, brucegoniners said:

Let's see a show of hands. Who believes the numbers?

Which ones?

11 minutes ago, James105 said:

It's really expensive.  The UK blew £37bn on test, track and trace and even with that amount of cash it is widely viewed as a waste of money that did nothing much to change the outcomes (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-trace-idUSKBN2B2009).   Maybe the UK can blow that kind of money without too many consequences, but over here I think that money (if they had it spare) could be better used to help those who have lost all of their income due to the lockdowns, or used to acquire hospital beds, ICUs etc.  

Thats not a good example from the UK though is it. Test, trace and track also employed thousands of new people and was bodged from the start, hardly something you would emulate somewhere else.

 

Besides back to the topic of Thailand.

 

Pro active testing (not the same as test and trace programme in UK) in Thailand is carried out via ATK, costing them 70 baht each, as opposed to 2,000 to process a PCR. With ATK you only then need to PCR test the positive cases and then only if they go into care.

9 minutes ago, James105 said:

It's really expensive.  The UK blew £37bn on test, track and trace and even with that amount of cash it is widely viewed as a waste of money that did nothing much to change the outcomes (https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-britain-trace-idUSKBN2B2009).   Maybe the UK can blow that kind of money without too many consequences, but over here I think that money (if they had it spare) could be better used to help those who have lost all of their income due to the lockdowns, or used to acquire hospital beds, ICUs etc.  

i agree.  i think testing programs are great very early on.  hopefully, it is possible do to the contact tracing and try to isolate areas of infection from areas that are clear of infection.  but once the virus is widespread, i don't see the necessity for mass testing.  you know where the cases are when people show up to get a test because they feel sick.  and such test comes up positive.   i think many 'experts' have suggested monitoring hospitalizations is a better metric than cases once the virus is widespread.  there may be a time when testing in thailand is helpful again, once this wave dies off and there is a need to detect where the next one takes off.

Just now, buick said:

i think many 'experts' have suggested monitoring hospitalizations is a better metric than cases once the virus is widespread. 

I think not, can you cite those experts?